If you think you’ve got a dating history like a who’s who of human crap, you might reconsider once you find out what goes on in the rest of the world. We all know dating is more complicated than the workings of a woman’s bra, but these weird dating experiences from around the world baffled even us professionals in the game!
Iceland Anti-Incest App
If you live in a country with a smaller population than your aunt’s nose hair, then you’re going to have serious trouble preventing bumping uglies with a distant relative. Coincidently, this is exactly what Iceland found. With just 320,000 people living within its borders, where most descend from a group of 9th century Viking settlers, Icelanders were constantly getting dirty with their cousin without even realising it. Luckily, in 2013 a revolutionary new app came along to solve the problem. Islendiga-App uses an online database of the family tree of almost the entire population, and just by touching phones, can reveal how closely related two Icelanders are via the Incest Prevention Alarm.
Private Detectives Find Love In India
No, this isn’t the story where Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple fall into each other’s arms in front of the Taj Mahal. This is the part of the love story they don’t tell you about in films, where the mother and father hire a private detective to research how suitable someone is for their son/daughter. In India, where arranged marriages are the norm, in-laws hire these sleuths to get all the dirt on potential partners, and if the man ain’t got enough goats or the daughter stays out past 7pm, they just don’t cut it.
Something Evil’s Lurking In The Dark In Bhutan
In rural areas of eastern Bhutan, there’s a ritual that still takes place to this day, which makes us strongly advise any female readers not to leave your windows open the next time you’re in the area. Known as Night Hunting, it involves a man sneaking into a girl’s room through an open window and spending the night. It all sounds very Romeo and Juliet, however, if caught by the girl’s family, he may have to marry her or dig up a field as penalty. The offending individual may even impregnate her and then abandon her to deal with the consequences. Suddenly being given the eye by some creep in a bar doesn’t sound all that bad.
Speed Daters Cover Up In The UK
Believe it or not, the UK has started doing something very odd when it comes to speed dating. Rather than just a quick two minutes sitting opposite a stranger pretending to be interested in what they say while marking them out of ten on their looks, the UK has started to put paper bags over their heads. In a way to combat shallowness and going home with someone simply because they look like Hugh Jackman/Jennifer Lopez, these speed dating events make you actually have to listen to what they say rather than judge them on their looks. It’s all very cute and you don’t feel like a tit at all. Honest.
